Former retired four-star Gen.David Petraeus reflects on his military career, from command of multi-national forces in Afghanistan and Iraq to his 14-month tenure as CIA director. Petraeus also comments on the state of national security.
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Former CIA director reflects on career, national security
April 3, 2017 9:35 AM by John GlynnFormer NASA administrator shares update on US space program
March 3, 2017 12:07 PM by John GlynnFormer NASA administrator Major Gen. Charles Frank Bolden Jr. gives his perspective on U.S. space program, including U.S.-China relations and the legal challenges involving mining asteroids and air traffic management.
Read More »2017 Stonewall Award honoree: Tonya Parker
February 10, 2017 2:31 PM by John GlynnTonya Parker, judge of the 116th Civil District Court in Dallas County, Texas, received national and international media attention when, after her election in 2010, she declined to officiate weddings until every couple in Texas, including gay and lesbian couples, could get married. In 2013 and 2015, she received the Dallas Bar Association’s highest ratings of any civil district judge. In 2015 Judge Parker was named Trial Judge of the Year by the Dallas chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. A graduate of the University of North Texas and Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, Parker is the first openly gay woman to be elected as county judge in Dallas and was previously a partner at two Dallas law firms.
Read More »Stonewall Award honoree: Diana K. Flynn
February 10, 2017 2:29 PM by John GlynnDiana K. Flynn, chief of the Appellate Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, was instrumental in her office’s legal counsel project that laid the groundwork for the division’s application of current sex discrimination laws to prohibit discrimination based on gender nonconformity and gender identity. Under her direction, the Appellate Section has filed more than 2,000 briefs in federal courts and has maintained a success rate of more than 80 percent. She also managed the division’s efforts in connection with the marriage equality cases, including Obergefell v. Hines, decided by the Supreme Court in 2015. A graduate of the University of Rochester in New York and Yale Law School, Flynn is the first person of trans history to serve openly in a number of senior capacities in the federal government and the legal profession.
Read More »Stonewall Award honoree: Kevin Cathcart
February 10, 2017 2:25 PM by John GlynnKevin Cathcart, the executive director of Lambda Legal, the nation’s oldest and largest LGBT legal organization from 1992 until his retirement in 2016, was the longest serving head of a major national LGBT nonprofit organization. He helped change the legal landscape for LGBT people with the organization’s work on three historic Supreme Court cases: Romer v. Evans, Lawrence v. Texas and Obergefell v. Hines. Under his leadership, Lambda Legal now has a docket of more than 100 cases, more than 100 staff members and offices in five U.S. cities. A graduate of Richard Stockton State College in New Jersey, the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Northeastern School of Law, he was executive director of GLAD in Boston from 1984-92.
Read More »Midyear 2017: ABA President-elect Nominee Robert M. Carlson addresses House of Delegates
February 7, 2017 7:57 AM by John GlynnMontana lawyer Robert M. Carlson, who will be ABA president in 2018-2019, addresses the House of Delegates during the Midyear Meeting in Miami. He expresses gratitude for the confidence and support given to him by ABA members and vows to continue to make a difference and ensure that the ABA is more relevant than ever.
Read More »Midyear 2017: ABA urges FDA to update blood donation policy
February 7, 2017 7:14 AM by John GlynnThe House of Delegates adopts resolution 112D, urging the repeal and/or modification of prohibitions on blood donations by gay men.
Read More »Midyear 2017: ABA urges tracking of sexual and gender-based violence
February 7, 2017 7:08 AM by John GlynnThe House of Delegates adopts resolution 105, urging the United Nations, the United States and other governments to develop and implement methodologies to measure and track the prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence worldwide.
Read More »Midyear 2017: ABA urges elimination of legal barriers to veterans’ access to benefits, services
February 7, 2017 7:02 AM by John GlynnThe House of Delegates adopts resolution 118, which urges lawmakers at all levels to work with the legal profession to collaborate, identify and remove legal barriers to veterans’ access to assistance, particularly those provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Read More »Midyear 2017: ABA urges legal protection and funding for refugees
February 7, 2017 6:58 AM by John GlynnThe House of Delegates approves resolution 10B, which reaffirms and expands existing ABA policy regarding refugees in light of the Jan. 27, 2017 executive order on immigration. The resolution calls for increased funding and legislation to process and handle refugee applications, and urges Congress to pass legislation that would provide for personal and expeditious assessments of refugee applications.
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